Audience reviews
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AnimeIsAMistake7
As i sit here attempting to craft a review for one of the worst cop shows I've ever had the misfortune of watching, I am tempted to abandon the endeavor entirely and never again think of this anime. This show makes me want to retroactively subtract 1 rating point from every anime I've seen as it singlehandedly has diminished the entire medium that is Japanese animation and can be used as supporting evidence to the argument "anime was a mistake".
The vast majority of the effort and investment into this series was likely spent on a collegiate language experts to create an entire fictional elvish language, as well as consultations with Tolkein and the writers of Miami Vice. They also threw in a bunch of impressively original but entirely out of place music that never once matched the settin…
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I've watched this anime three times, and the likes for this anime are starting to drop.
This anime is quite interesting with its own storyline, although there is no initial story before the two parties reconcile.
I think this will be a story for the next season, I hope there is a continuation.
The downside is the fight scenes, they are not well done.
For example, never PAUSE this anime, then it will be clear that the picture will be strange. Lol.
The opening and ending songs are very good, I think they are very harmonious with the story of this anime.
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I'm going to be honest this show would be masterpiece... If it wasn't rushed
but about that in a moment.
Story is outstanding 10/10
Personally i would love to see more realistic stories like this.
when i first checked this show and read summary i was quite thrown off
But after first episode i fallen in trap of watching one episode after another
without breaks. Story is told in awesome way but... ending is rushed
this show should be told in 24 episodes or 16 at least.
12 seams not enough so ending got rushed but it was still great. Art is outstanding i fallen in love with it
Sound is even better! opening and ending are great to listen to.
Characters are really interesting they are filled with personalities and
are not hollow... In short stories the characters often are blank and easily e…
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Cop Craft is a twelve episode anime series from last year based off of a series of light novels that have been going since '09. The anime was handled by Millepensee. A studio best known for the new Berserk anime and making a billion seasons of Teekyuu. Neither of which I've seen. So, this is my introduction to them.
Story:
In the world of Cop Craft, our world is connected to another with fairies and magic. We open with two undercover cops going to buy a fairy when one of their suspects seemingly goes into a trance, kills one of them and makes a break with the fairy. We cut to the survivor, Blandon McStandard, getting partnered with an alien, Blanda Actiongirl. The pair are going to have to find the faerie and then solve other cases caused by the intersection of their cultures.
There…
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Guess ppl come to this anime expecting cheap comedy and combats that last for 100episodes or something... its the my only guess to why this anime has scored so low. [Spoilless Review]
It doesn't deserve it, this anime is quite good on its own, first of all its a Seinen anime, not a Shounen of course Battles aren't going to last long or be polished enough because it doesn't matter to the plot, they aren't the main focus of the anime anyway. Non-child friendly topics going to be discussed often(but they aren't filosofal or anything, just mature stuff), some might be tough for children to comprehend even though the female character looks like it came out of a Shounen manga or something. She does goes through a huge development in personality, and intelectual growth and for that alone is wort…
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Tonight, I wanna talk about this weird ass show called Cop Craft that came out this past summer.Its kind of a blend of fantasy and crime drama which is something I don't mind.Hell, I was actually in favor of how fantasy is incorporated rather than just being something random in a weak excuse to make a magical world.But I'm not talking about Alderman rn, I'm talking about Cop Craft, a show where elves and humans live together but there are some tensions going on between races. So a cop named Kei Mataba has to team up with an elf girl called Exidilika or something and they craft some cops I guess.
Now to describe the actual story in forms of quality, it's like a waterfall.The actual start of the show was very promising but about two detective cases in, the show falls and plummets into the g…
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Cop Craft is a victim of a REALLY bad time to release - compared to the beautifully animated Kimetsu no Yaiba, a few poorly animated scenes (episode 3 and 10 come to mind) really gave it a bad rap. But unlike the ultimately shallow and mediocre Kimetsu no Yaiba, Cop Craft actually has a soul, a story to tell with intentionally flawed characters that grow and evolve over the course of a story that has some false starts and a few lapses in writing, but overall does a surprisingly good job of what it set out to do.
At its core, Cop Craft is - surprise! - a buddy cop anime. Stop me if you've heard this one before; two very different cops are forced to work together by a no-nonsense chief and have to deal with each other and their jobs while slowly growing to respect each other. In that regard…
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Don't bother if you're a fan of the Buddy Cop genre, police procedurals, good world building, or even above-mediocre animation or directing. The only positive quality Cop Craft has to offer is its unoriginal premise. But if that's what got you interested in checking it out, you'll be just as satisfied from reading the plot synopsis above as you would be from watching 12 episodes of this garbage.
Let's go through this one complaint at a time:
The show is trying to talk about racism and xenophobia by introducing a fantasy race of immigrants from a fantasy world, which is a cheap but efficient trick. The main target audience of Japan doesn't have to feel alienated by having to consider the issues of groups they might not feel too inclined towards, any minority group can't feel personally of…
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I have never given a review out of all anime's I have watched in my life, but Cop craft resonated powerfully with me as a African American and that is due to the character of Tilarna Exedilica. The animation at times is choppy and the episode endings cliche, but that didn't stop me from getting a lot of enjoyment out of the series and I wish for a second season. Kei Matoba resonates powerfully with my in regards to my friends, being African American I have had many friend's families tell their kids they shouldn't associate with me because of my skin color, my race, but kei represents what a lot of my friends did for me growing up, they went against their own raising, families and their community to remain friends with me. Some have even put their lives on the line for me.
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This show was a serious letdown for me. I thought that I'd found a diamond in the rough, but really, I found a boring, surface-level, waifu-baiting, white-bread anime.
COP CRAFT is another anime that seriously harms its credibility with out-of-place fanservice. I don't know why, but it seems like literally everyone in Japan is in a constant state of pure-horniness. Like, it's obnoxious. In the last episode, for example, the stark contrast between the tones of the A-story and the B-story completely takes the viewers out of the story. It's sad, because the story WAS actually there, it was just poorly executed. There are like, 3 episodes dedicated to meaningful plot development, the rest are just pur…
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Ok, so that's it folks, for this anime, that is, but you know when it come to certain anime that has that police genre, this basically was a good one, cu'z unlike other animes with such genre most of it doesn't have such realism as this one, that was because, when it says "Police" it doesn't always mean that way, cu's usually everything were pretty much exaggerated that it can no long be called as a "Police" genre. so how do I rate this anime??????? Here's how:
Story-Good 7: The story plot may have some from fantasy and magic, but the genre that was mostly used here was the Police part. Now, good as it was, the problem of this anime was that the timing of the executions of the plot per episode were a bit off as if anime director Itagaki, Shin want's this to be more like a mini-series than…
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To get the premise out of the way first, Cop Craft is basically a buddy cop show that mixes Rush Hour (two cops of different cultures working together) with the concept from Blood Blockade Battlefront (Kekkai Sensen; dimensional gate creates a mixed [distinctly American] city of alien + human technology and cultures).
Compared to Blood Blockade Battlefront the setting is a lot more toned down. The connected alien world is more in the line of classic medieval fantasy and less absurd. Magic exists, but it is, even for the alien culture, a rare trait and not flashy or simplistic. The show is more about the mix of the magically influenced technology mixing with the human made technology.
In this type of premise a lot rides on the world and characters and I'm happy to say that it fulfills bot…
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Fantasy and Buddy Cop are not two genres that I thought would ever be put together, much less in an anime. But by god is this something that I'm glad exists.
Story:
Fifteen years ago, a large inter-dimensional gate appeared in the Pacific linking Earth to the fantastical world of Reto Semani, a place filled with fairies and magic. The city of San Teresa exists as the 'doorstep' to Earth where people from both sides exist in harmony. But underneath the beautiful veil of San Teresa lies a dark underbelly where crime and illegal trafficking exist in a dark cesspool. After losing his buddy of 4 years on a case, Kei Matoba is joined by Tilarna Exedilica, a knight from Reto Semaani as his new partner.
So we've got a buddy cop scenario where the grumpy veteran clashes with a more bright-ey…
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I must say that I resent quite how underrated this anime was in the season, but well a lot usually happens in this medium.
Regarding Cop Craft I found it enjoyable from start to finish, it had an excellent police history with a very well set and varied city that reminded me a lot of Hellsalem's Lot of Kekkai Sensen, the protagonists have a unique connection and it is very easy to sympathize with them and its cause
Although the animation was not perfect, it is very unfair that they discredit the anime for having a fall in the quality of animation in some chapters, however the series was able to recover and give us a good adaptation.
Finally the OP & ED and OST are just great.
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I don’t consider myself easy to impress, and harbor a considerable amount of skepticism when it comes to anime in particular. The state of the industry and Japan’s own questionable ethics more often than not lead to incomplete adaptations, overreliance on tropes, tendency to pander, and plenty other undesirable practices in the medium.
Suffice to say, anime as a medium has yet to evolve to the level of films or literature, and as such I choose to keep my expectations rather low with every coming season. Sure, you have your hard-hitters like Vinland Saga and Demon Slayer, but then there’s the expected boatload of isekai, or series with potential but fall into mediocrity--for me and plenty of others, To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts was one such show. And even then, the hard-hitters often are…
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Months of waiting for what I would soon see become the king of mediocrity, Cop Craft aired and showed us how detrimental a poor budget can be. That being said, it is not terrible per se and should hover around a 7/10. If you're a sucker for cop/buddy stories, go ahead and watch but dont expect anything ground breaking.
You are brought into San Teresa City and have an amazing first few episodes then we fall into mediocrity. Dependent on your perception of the characters, it will define the viewing expereince for you. The ending is honestly pretty cool.
Pros: -Characterization for the main characters and a select few are very well. Relationships are built well in dialogue. Without the characters, the show has nothing. Executed very well.
- Story flows well at times
- Distinctive soundt…
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Cop Craft is a very disappointing show.
It should have been good, even great. It has a cool premise, nice character designs, great chemistry between the leads. The opening scene of the first episode is great, and the beginning of the show was generally a fun time, even if wasn't that great to look at.
However, the show went from 'not that great to look at' to downright laughable, especially in the last few episodes (the one after the recap was dreadful), and the visuals are easily the worst thing about the show.
The story also feels like it got downgraded as the season went along. There were plot threads and ideas that didn't go anywhere, there was the completely inconsequential two episode mini-arc that felt like cheap fanservice filler, and the finale is really anticlimactic (not to m…
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“The password is seven letters, listen carefully. It starts with F, then U, then C, K…”
Ever seen a buddy cop film? This is a love letter to the subgenre, and it turns out, buddy cop plus moe is a match made in heaven. The key premise of a buddy cop film is forcing two very different people to work together - anime allows these people to be as different as a gruff veteran detective and a space elf loli jedi. They’re supposed to bicker - so we get angry loli pouts and a despairing guy too old for this shit. “Fish out of water” - we get treated to a curious inquisitive daughteru interacting with the modern world. None of that, of course, gets in the way of the pure cop drama goodness - you still get all the “getting shot two days before retirement”, “investigation leading to a strip club” a…
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"It's the American dream, you know!"
If a gate opened to a magical fantasy land, which would be the likely outcome?
A) You are summoned as a hero and must defeat Generic Evil Overlord #21,576 with the help of your newly found godlike powers and a harem of people desperate for your love and affection.
B) The people from both sides engage in awkward coexistence and cultural exchange, featuring racism, guns, pornography, drugs, theft, prostitution, humanoid trafficking, terrorism, rampant consumerism, and cats.
By the very nature of their premises, cultural commentary and social issues should be natural topics for isekai series. After all, isekai is supposed to be about travelling to other worlds, and the obvious thing to do would be gawking at the different cultures like a confused touri…
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Cop Craft made me question what happens if Blood Blockade Battlefront had a brother or sister. While they share some of resemblance of its other from their base premise, Cop Craft certainly stands out to be its own series. Taking place in a gritty underworld setting, this is the type of show I didn’t know if I wanted to see again.
Are you a fan of storytelling with a buddy cop style formula? If so, Cop Craft will probably be a treat with the amount of character dynamics. There’s certain level of character interactions that will get you comfortable with its first opening episodes. Make no mistake though, Cop Craft itself is meant to be taken seriously although its execution of humor can be questionable. I’ll get to that later but the first two episodes hit the right marks to make a favorab…
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